Re: Re: Making GNUS continue to work with Gmail

[Gregory Heytings]

> He explains the drawbacks of this approach: Google doesn't *want* that 
> the app's users see the password. But the app is free software, so *we* 
> want that the users see everything in the app.

That's what Google's official terms of service state.  But in practice 
this is not enforced, Google tolerates that free software projects violate 
that specific point of their TOS.  Otherwise Kmail, Thunderbird and others 
would not work with Gmail.  They do work with Gmail, because they include 
OAuth credentials in their source code.  For that matter, Google knows 
very well that this is nothing but "security through obscurity", given 
that OAuth credentials are at least embedded in the program binary (or 
perhaps stored somewhere else and read by the program).

Gregory